Ren'Py vs LITIENGINE
When comparing Ren'Py vs LITIENGINE, the Slant community recommends Ren'Py for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Ren'Py is ranked 39th while LITIENGINE is ranked 87th. The most important reason people chose Ren'Py is:
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Pro Active and friendly community
Pro Reasonably good at creating puzzle and point-and-click games
Pro Easy to use
Clean and well-designed API that is easily discoverable. Comes with a simple tool (utiLITI) for editing levels based on .tmx maps.
Pro Free an open-source
The engine is published under the MIT license and is entirely free to use.
Pro they are developing a beta for mac and linux
Pro Active and helpful community
Has an active forum and discord channel to discuss topics about the engine.
Cons
Con Not for every genre
While technically capable of creating 2D games in any genre, Ren'Py excels in creating visual novels and has a reasonable feature set for creating puzzle and point-and-click games. Other genres are best tackled by other engines.
Con Outdated Documentation and official built-in tutorials
Unfortunately, you will have to hunt relevant info on how Ren'py script works. The Ren'Py dev has the working tutorials on his Patreon, other than that you might as well just code in Python.
Con Requires knowledge of Python to use
Con Limited to Desktop
Games made with the engine only run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. There is no support for Android or HTML, yet.